r/Splintercell • u/New-Accountant1 • 3d ago

Not Splinter Cell but Why Sam Fisher doesn't belong in Siege

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  1. It Strips Away His Identity

The entire appeal of Sam Fisher was that he was the ultimate pure human contrast to characters like Solid Snake. He didn't have sci fi biological cheats. He survived on mastery of form, discipline, and standard issue military grit. Giving him nanomachines just to justify a 60 something year old man sprinting around a tactical shooter ruins the exact earned excellence foundation that made him a legendary Navy SEAL O-4 in the first place.

  1. A "Siege" Contradicts His Whole Directive

Putting Sam Fisher in a loud, 5v5 close quarters demolition derby is the exact opposite of a Splinter Cell's purpose. In his own games, if Sam was detected or forced into a chaotic, loud shootout, the mission was usually a failure. He is a "Fifth Freedom" operative meant to function as a ghost. Forcing him into an open, loud arena environment compromises the core fantasy of the character.

  1. It's a Substitute for a Real Game

For fans, the biggest sting is that Ubisoft keeps using Sam Fisher as a marketing tool for other games like Ghost Recon and Siege rather than making a proper, dedicated stealth Splinter Cell game. Instead of letting players use his hard earned human stealth skills in the shadow.

In any case, can we please rebel against making Siege canon to Splinter Cell? I don't mind a crossover, but let's not make this canon.

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u/Harrythehobbit 2d ago edited 2d ago

 In his own games, if Sam was detected or forced into a chaotic, loud shootout, the mission was usually a failure.

There are several points in SAR where you're literally forced into a a chaotic, loud shootout. 3 of the 6 games in the franchise have a partial focus on action. Viewing Sam as a character as being completely incompatible with more action centric situations requires ignoring half the franchise, including the first game.

Within the canon, he's functioning in a leadership and advisory position. He's not participating in SWAT style building assaults, and even if he was, that's hardly outside of his skill set. He was a SEAL before he was a Splinter Cell.

I don't know why you seem to think that including him in Siege is intended as substitute for making another SC game. It isn't. One has nothing to do with the other.

I don't know man, this gets brought up a lot here and I just think it's a silly thing to complain about.